Students compete in PHDS geography bee

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, Providence Hebrew Day School students participated in the National Geographic Bee for the first time. This is a national competition, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, in which fourth through eighth graders answer questions related to United States and world geography.

The participants from PHDS were fourth-graders Simcha Abrahim and Chaim Vito Pompili, fifth-graders Binyamin Cohen and Naftali Schochet, sixth-graders Gittel Golden and Yehoshua Hack, and seventh-graders Mordechai Bielory and Shmuel Yehuda Schochet. After a very difficult round of questions, the two students who moved to the championship round were Shmuel Yehuda Schochet and Mordechai Bielory. Mordechai Bielory came out on top.

He is now eligible to represent PHDS in the Rhode Island state competition in March. The winner of the state competition represents Rhode Island in the national competition in Washington, D.C., competing against the winners from other states.

All PHDS participants are not yet in eighth grade, so they are eligible to participate again next year. Mr. Stoloff was coordinator and judge of this bee. Ms. Cole and Rabbi Yudkowsky helped.

An audience of parents and grandparents enjoyed the competition.

– Submitted by Providence Hebrew Day School